This verse only has one phrase to look at and I think it’s so common you will all already know it. Now my heart’s breaking and I don’t know what to do Hold on, don’t give up because help is coming. If a person or couple are holding on, it implies that to continue is difficult. The phrase is usually used in a figurative sense and can mean wait or don’t stop what you are doing. If someone is hanging off the edge of a building by their hands, you might tell them hold on, don’t let go. To hold on means to continue to do something that’s difficult. There is a soap opera in the UK called Coronation Street that was first broadcast in 1960 and it’s still going strong.
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So it could be a band that’s recording and touring, or a TV show that has been on air for a long time. You could also use it to talk about any activity that is continuing. So if something has been happening for a long time, perhaps a long-distance runner has been running a marathon, if they look fit and strong and like they are going to continue, you could say the runner is going strong. If something is going strong, it is continuing without showing any signs that it will stop. So he has the idea or feeling that you want to leave regularly. Harry sings that he keeps getting the feeling you wanna leave this all behind. You can also keep on doing something which means to not stop doing something. If you keep doing something it means you are doing something regularly and frequently. Common uses are: I got the feeling I had forgotten something … I got the feeling someone was watching me … Harry uses the verb keep and the gerund. If you get the feeling about something, you suddenly start to feel something or have an idea about something. In the next line Harry sings keep getting the feeling. It’s in Marvin Gaye’s I heard it through the grapevine.
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This is a common phrase in song lyrics and it’s usually related to going crazy because the person you love has rejected you. To lose your mind means to become mentally ill. The contracted version, especially the form that Harry sings, which leaves out have, sounds like American English to me. I think in normal English have got to is only used for emphasis because the word is so strong. Have got to and have to have the same meaning. If you have to do something then it’s a rule or something you have to do for your job or school. It works like a modal verb like must or should or can and it implies obligation. Have got to or have to is a phrasal modal. I’ll start with the contraction gotta – this is the short or contracted form of have got to. There’s a lot of language to look at in this first verse.
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Keep getting the feeling you wanna leave this all behind I’ll go through the song verse by verse and look at the interesting language as I go. Now, as I said, I’m not sure who they are singing to. When I first listened to it and watched the video, I thought it was to each other and the band member that left, but some of the lyrics sound a bit more romantic than I would have expected. I am not sure who the band is singing this song to. I’m sure One Direction fans must love singing along to this one. It’s kind of familiar in the way good pop songs are and has a strong chorus. I have listened to the song a couple of times now and it’s pretty catchy, that is, it’s got a pleasing tune that’s easy to remember. The song I’m looking at today is called History and it was released in 2015 on the last One Direction album.īefore I look at the lyrics to the song, I’m going to confess again that I had never really listened to One Direction before today and had only really heard of Harry Styles because he was in the Christopher Nolan masterpiece Dunkirk and because he’s been in the news recently for wearing a dress. Today, following a request from a listener from Indonesia, I want to look at the interesting language in the lyrics of a song by the band One Direction. There’s a page for this podcast with the transcript, an activity and a task for you to do in the comments section. You can find a transcript of this podcast on .uk. My name is Jack and I’m making this podcast for you to learn or revise English vocabulary. Hello and welcome to Learn English Vocabulary.